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Colorado HB 1160: Wellness programs for discounted insurance
Colorado HB 1160 echoes what might be the only pro-liberty aspect of ObamaCare. (I did not expect any!) The New York Times reports: Workplace wellness programs are becoming more and more popular as businesses try to rein in runaway health … Continue reading
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Tagged Colorado HB 1160, insurance as forced charity, wellness programs
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The ObamaCare scam
The Daily Camera asked its editorial advisory board members their view of ObamaCare, formally HR 3590. My response was published in the March 27 edition: ObamaCare is a scam. It further empowers politicians to dictate how you seek medical care … Continue reading
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Tagged free-market health care brief, insurance as forced charity
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20 Ways ObamaCare Will Take Away Our Freedoms
From David Hogberg in Investors Business Daily: …It is worthwhile to take a comprehensive look at the freedoms we will lose [with health "reform" passed]. Of course, the overhaul is supposed to provide us with security. But it will result … Continue reading
Colorado House Bill 1008: force men to pay higher insurance premiums
The Denver Post reports that Colorado “House Bill 1008 would bar health insurance companies from using gender as a basis for setting different premium rates for men and women.” Basically, insurers generally charge women higher premiums than men. Supporters of … Continue reading
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Tagged Colorado HB 1008, equality, insurance as forced charity, public choice
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What insurance will the government let you have?
Paul Hsieh, MD reminds us of how, in both the House and Senate health care bills the so-called health care “reform” will further empower government officials to tell us what insurance we can and cannot have: Under any system of … Continue reading
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Tagged Health Choices Administration, HR 3590, HR 3962, illegal insurance, insurance as forced charity
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Insurance “exchanges”: government-run insurance w/o a “public option”
The Wall Street Journal editorial board explains how so-called insurance exchanges of the House and Senate health care bills are government-run insurance: Both bills [House and Senate] blow up the individual and small-business insurance markets, to be replaced with new … Continue reading